1.
Series:
Living With Viola
Hardcover
Rosena Fung
9781773215488
$24.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
Nov 16, 2021
“Unforgettable . . . will shake middle grade readers to the core.”—School Library Journal, starred review “Beautifully illustrated, relatable, and genuine.” —Molly Brooks, creator of Sanity & Tallulah “Everyone needs to buy this book now. Seriously. Buy it, read it, share it.”—Colleen Nelson, author and teacher Honest and funny, this award-winning graphic novel from a debut creator is a refreshingly real exploration of mental health, cultural differences, and the trials of middle school. Livy is already having trouble fitting in as the new gir...
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2.
Series:
Living With Viola
Paperback
Rosena Fung
9781773215495
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
Nov 16, 2021
“Unforgettable . . . will shake middle grade readers to the core.”—School Library Journal, starred review “Beautifully illustrated, relatable, and genuine.” —Molly Brooks, creator of Sanity & Tallulah “Everyone needs to buy this book now. Seriously. Buy it, read it, share it.”—Colleen Nelson, author and teacher Honest and funny, this award-winning graphic novel from a debut creator is a refreshingly real exploration of mental health, cultural differences, and the trials of middle school. Livy is already having trouble fitting in as the new gir...
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4.
Series:
Multiculturalism
Paperback
Cecil Foster
9781771964418
$24.95
HISTORY
Feb 07, 2023
Transnationalist Cecil Foster explores the origins, legacy, and potential of Canadian multicultural policy. From the beginning of colonial settlement in the Americas, multiculturalism has symbolized a deeply held yearning by all humanity for freedom. It was at the heart of the Civil War and Canadian Confederation in 1867. But until the 1970s, this yearning for a socially just society was consistently suppressed. Peoples of colour were denied citizenship in the White Man’s Country, the highest achievement of the American Dream and a Manifes...
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5.
Series:
A Dream of a Woman
Paperback
Casey Plett
9781551528564
$21.95
FICTION
Sep 12, 2021
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Award-winning novelist Casey Plett (Little Fish) returns with a poignant suite of stories that center transgender women. Casey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award. Her latest work, A Dream of a Woman, is her first book of short stories since her seminal 2014 collection A Safe Girl to Love. Centering transgender women seeking stable, adult lives, A Dream of a Woman finds quiet truths in prairie high-rises and N...
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6.
Series:
What Was Said to Me
The Life of Sti'tum'atul'wut, a Cowichan Woman
Paperback
Ruby Peter
9780772679383
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 18, 2021
A narrative of resistance and resilience spanning seven decades in the life of a tireless advocate for Indigenous language preservation. Life histories are a form of contemporary social history and convey important messages about identity, cosmology, social behaviour and one’s place in the world. This first-person oral history—the first of its kind ever published by the Royal BC Museum—documents a period of profound social change through the lens of Sti’tum’atul’wut—also known as Mrs. Ruby Peter—a Cowichan elder who made it her life’s work to ...
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8.
Series:
Green Glass Ghosts
Paperback
Rae Spoon
9781551528380
$19.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 14
May 04, 2021
From writer and musician Rae Spoon: a rollicking yet introspective young adult adventure about screwing up, finding yourself, and forging a new life on your own. At age nineteen in the year 2000, the queer narrator of Green Glass Ghosts steps off a bus on Granville Street in downtown Vancouver, a city where the faceless condo towers of the wealthy loom over the streets to of the east side where folks are just trying to get by, against the deceptively beautiful backdrop of snow-capped mountains and sparkling ocean. Armed with only their guitar...
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9.
Series:
The Forest of Stolen Girls
Hardcover
June Hur
9781250229588
$25.99
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 13 - 18
Apr 20, 2021
Suspenseful and richly atmospheric, June Hur's The Forest of Stolen Girls is a haunting historical mystery sure to keep readers guessing until the last page.1426, Joseon (Korea). Hwani's family has never been the same since she and her younger sister went missing and were later found unconscious in the forest near a gruesome crime scene. Years later, Detective Min—Hwani's father—learns that thirteen girls have recently disappeared from the same forest that nearly stole his daughters. He travels to their hometown on the island of Jeju to investi...
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10.
Series:
The Doll
Hardcover
Nhung N. Tran-Davies
9781772601657
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 5 - 9
Apr 20, 2021
A young girl and her family arrive in an airport in a new country. They are refugees, migrants who have travelled across the world to find safety. Strangers greet them, and one of them gives the little girl a doll. Decades later, that little girl is grown up and she has the chance to welcome a group of refugees who are newly arrived in her adopted country. To the youngest of them, a little girl, she gives a doll, knowing it will help make her feel welcome. Inspired by real events.
11.
Series:
How to Fail as a Popstar
Paperback
Vivek Shraya
9781551528427
$18.95
DRAMA
Feb 18, 2021
The first play by multi-media artist Vivek Shraya, about fame and personal transformation. Described as "cultural rocket fuel" by Vanity Fair, Vivek Shraya is a multi-media artist whose art, music, novels, and poetry and children's books explore the beauty and the power of personal and cultural transformation. How to Fail as a Popstar is Vivek's debut theatrical work, a one-person show that chronicles her journey from singing in shopping malls to "not quite" pop music superstardom with beguiling humor and insight. A reflection on the power of ...
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12.
Series:
We All Go Back to the Land
The Who, Why, and How of Land Acknowledgements
Paperback
Suzanne Keeptwo
9781550598674
$24.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Feb 03, 2021
Since the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Report in 2015, Land or Territorial Acknowledgments have been sweeping the nation. Academic conferences, government press conferences, cultural events, and even hockey games now often begin with an acknowledgment of the Original Peoples of the lands they are situated upon. Initially, Land Acknowledgments may have made an impact as most Canadians didn’t know which Indigenous Land base their suburb or city or town was built upon, but most acknowledgements now have a standardized, token feel ...
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13.
Series: Field Notes
On Property
Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition
Paperback
Rinaldo Walcott
9781771964074
$14.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Feb 02, 2021
A Globe and Mail Book of the Year A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021 From plantation rebellion to prison labour's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property. That a man can lose his life for passing a fake $20 bill when we know our economies are flush with fake money says something damning about the way we’ve organized society. Yet the intensity of the calls to abolish the police after George Floyd’s death surprised almost everyone. What, exactly, does abolition mean? How did we get here? And w...
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